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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR stopped displaying all alias icons after trying to create new icon

« Last post by mouser on July 28, 2012, 11:41 PM »

Ok so first things first, you shouldnt be able to cause any problems by anything you are doing.

But it's possible that somehow your windows icon cache got flumoxed.

So a good thing to try is to rebuild your windows icon cache.

Two ways to rebuild:

• http://www.sevenforu...n-cache-rebuild.html
• http://www.thewindow...icon-cache-rebuilder

Let me know if that solves the problem.. I'm really not sure how you could cause this problem even if you wanted to.

One thing you could try is, after you rebuild the windows icon cache, go to the folder of these aliases and make sure that windows explorer is displaying the icon files correctly.  That is, see if its a problem with your windows shell drawing the icons rather than a farr-specific problem.

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Living Room / Re: DonationCoder Poker Tournament is Scheduled!

« Last post by mouser on July 28, 2012, 03:11 PM »

Anyone want to try a practice tournament? We need some more people to sign up and rsvp to play in the real one!

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Developer's Corner / Re: Help me think of a small ipad app idea to code

« Last post by mouser on July 28, 2012, 11:56 AM »

beware of it being too useful

somehow i don't think that's going to be my problem  

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Grab Selected Region - Arrow Keys for Fine TUning Selection

« Last post by mouser on July 28, 2012, 03:14 AM »

Let me think about it tlsi.

I should note that region nudging (and enlarging and shrinking) *is* possible once you have the image inside screenshot captor, see:
https://www.donation...c/3ds/sc25/sc25.html

So my suggestion, as always, is capture the entire screen and then crop from within SC.

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Living Room / Re: System Administrator Appreciation Day

« Last post by mouser on July 28, 2012, 01:01 AM »

I'd like to thank Gothic who has solved countless server administration issues for DC.. Without him we would be in terrible shape. 

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Living Room / Re: In search of ... cookie viewer w/create date

« Last post by mouser on July 27, 2012, 11:59 PM »

Cookies Manager + doesn't seem work that way on my system ... no creation date.

if i remember correctly, it is a little tricky to get it to show creation date in the grid; there is a tiny button on far right of header to let you toggle the columns to show.

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Living Room / Re: In search of ... cookie viewer w/create date

« Last post by mouser on July 27, 2012, 07:48 PM »

Cookies Manager+ for firefox will show creation date and allow you to view and edit the content of cookies and various other details.

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Living Room / Re: Show us a photo of your mutt or other creatures..

« Last post by mouser on July 27, 2012, 06:45 PM »

Love the way he jumps in. 

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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!

« Last post by mouser on July 27, 2012, 08:50 AM »

Fun.

And now for something completely different.. Kelley Deal and friend in an ultra-minimalist acoustic lo-fi performance of "Fall Out and Fire". Swoon.

(music starts at about 33 seconds in)

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Screenshot Captor / Re: ScreenshotCaptor - Arrow Clearing Endpoint Text

« Last post by mouser on July 25, 2012, 12:18 PM »

I could have sworn I made an option for this, but I don't see it; I will add it.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Launchy portables alternatives

« Last post by mouser on July 25, 2012, 08:48 AM »

Actually now that you remind me, you could browse that list online here:
https://www.donation...related_programs.htm

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012

« Last post by mouser on July 25, 2012, 12:27 AM »

Hi jnulu.

You say when you restart the pc everything is fine but when you shutdown and start the history is gone.

Restarting the pc should be the exact same thing as shutting down and restarting.. Can you experiment a little more and try to figure out what circumstances the behavior shows itself?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Launchy portables alternatives

« Last post by mouser on July 24, 2012, 11:03 PM »

FARR was inmediately adopted.

Glad you like it

Shameless link to my Find and Run Robot page: here.
(all of my software is designed to be able to run portably).

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MEWLO Web Framework / Re: OLD - Unfinished Web project: YUMPS

« Last post by mouser on July 24, 2012, 01:30 AM »

I have just finished a painful round of coding adding various options for how user registration should be done.

Traditionally (for example on most forums) when a new user wants to sign up, they are asked for a username, password, and email address.  At that point a validation email is sent to the users registered email address that they must click to prove that it their email, after which they can log in.

The new optional mode asks the user ONLY for an email address, and then forces the user to provide the other required fields (username, password) only after they have visited the validation link; this can be used with bridged accounts as well, and by default (though it is an option) will create only lightweight validation table entries until the validation is complete, which avoids polluting the user table with unvalidated failed accounts.

There are several advantages to the new method:

• Simpler initial registration, less confusion for users and less mental barrier to signing up
• The part that most often goes wrong (providing wrong email address) is caught early before user wastes any time -- and they haven't ended up "reserving" a username that they never follow through on.
• The user table is only validated users -- cleaner and smaller

Drawbacks:

• The use of a specialized pending-validation table *might* make it more programatically painful to report and track bad behavior.. That is if we created a non-validated user account right away, we could have one and only one unified system for tracking users behavior, ips, access attempts, log, etc.  Wheras if we postpone creating a user until validation, we need to provide investigatory tools both for the normal user table but also for the validation pre-registration table.
• If we only gather email address from user initially, we can't let them in right away, pending email validation, to access some limited areas, the way we could if we got their username and password initially.
• Any other drawbacks I'm not thinking of?

Note:

It's been particularly painful simultaneously supporting both this new method, as well as the traditional method of registration, as well as options for how to handle bridged logins in these cases, which introduces some hairy scenarios (like when you want to allow bridged users to not be forced to provide an email address, etc.)

Keeping the multiple options for user account registration may not be worth the extra complication in the long run, and I am thinking of dropping support for the traditional registration approach (get username,email,pass at initial signup).  If anyone has strong feelings either way let me know.

In general I'd say the thing that's really kicking my ass lately with YUMPS is trying to support options for having so many different ways to do things..

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Living Room / Re: Cool television show (lot of it on youtube): Penn and Teller Fool Us

« Last post by mouser on July 23, 2012, 01:30 PM »

To be honest I don't care much for magic, nor for Penn or Teller (Not that I don't respect the amazing skills).  But I still appreciate them talking about their craft and the idea of magicians critiquing other magicians.

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Living Room / Cool television show (lot of it on youtube): Penn and Teller Fool Us

« Last post by mouser on July 23, 2012, 10:25 AM »

Stumbled upon this cool show where magicians perform in front of famous magicians Penn and Teller, and they try to figure out the trick.  Often they can, sometimes they can't, but the most fun is just listening to them analyze the tricks and talk to the other magicians using terms of art.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: farr forgetting last window position

« Last post by mouser on July 23, 2012, 10:17 AM »

That's a new option, enabled by default:

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Finished Programs / Re: SOLVED: Insert text string to front / end of each line in a text file

« Last post by mouser on July 22, 2012, 10:16 AM »

Just a note that my Clipboard Help+Spell is very well suited for performing operations like this on blocks of text that you select in any program.

If you have a bunch of text files to perform this on, then look elsewhere, but if you occasionally need to perform similar operations on a block of text, you can use CHS and even set up formatting presets to allow you to trigger it with a hotkey:

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Living Room / Re: Show us a photo of your mutt or other creatures..

« Last post by mouser on July 22, 2012, 08:10 AM »

I'm so sorry about your loss Stephen, I know how much you loved him.  Just remember that so many animals in this world have no one who loves them and live miserable lives.. You gave him love and a home and will keep the memory of him, and that's all a dog wants.  He's not in pain any more.

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Site/Forum Features / Re: About the Basement (Soap Box) Section

« Last post by mouser on July 21, 2012, 11:08 AM »

Sounds like it would be too easy to get lost in a dungeon..
Remember we don't want people to get lost down there -- the whole point is to keep us all together as part of a shared experience and to avoid becoming segmented into insular groups.  

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Site/Forum Features / Re: Rearranging some board sections

« Last post by mouser on July 21, 2012, 11:03 AM »

Shouldn't "General Software Discussion" be above "Living Room"? It sounds strange to have a board that's described as "General discussions and topics that don't fit in other sections" at the top of the list

How about now?

The title only, but not the content, is visible now

How about now?

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Site/Forum Features / Rearranging some board sections

« Last post by mouser on July 21, 2012, 10:33 AM »

I'm just doing some minor moving around of board sections.. Put the two main ones in the top group and moved Official Announcements lower, since we don't use that section often.

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Site/Forum Features / Re: About the Basement (Soap Box) Section

« Last post by mouser on July 21, 2012, 10:31 AM »

If you filter out the soap-box forum from the 'unread' page, shouldn't these messages also be filtered from the 'recent posts' summary at the bottom of the forum home-page?

yes, i need to add that too.

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Site/Forum Features / Re: About the Basement (Soap Box) Section

« Last post by mouser on July 21, 2012, 10:31 AM »

I'm also playing with renaming it from Soap Box, which sounds like it is practically begging people to get up on their box and scream, to the Basement, which does a bit more to convey the unusual nature of the area.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: search alias (Core-Search.alias)

« Last post by mouser on July 21, 2012, 07:16 AM »

I'd like to request some help preparing new aliases.. if someone was willing to edit the core aliases to bring them up to date (and add any new items or new alias files), I'd love to have the help and would updated the core files.